GOING DIGITAL: Puget Sound Green Infrastructure Summit
*IMPORTANT UPDATE*
Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, this year’s Summit will take place in a largely virtual format. In order to make the most of the situation, to keep our green infrastructure work moving forward, and to maximize the safety and health of all of you, our partners and friends, we have ...
Crab Team and COVID-19
March 31, 2020
March and April are typically the busiest months on the Crab Team annual calendar, as staff and volunteers reunite for training workshops to relaunch the monitoring season. This spring, however, the Crab Team office has been almost entirely empty over the past month. The leadership o...
2022 Calendar Request Form
2022 Washington Sea Grant Calendar
We are now taking orders for our 2022 calendar, which features the unique artwork of renowned artist, Ray Troll. Please fill in all of the following fields and submit to order your copies.
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Looking Back on 50 Years: Longtime WSG Staff Reflect on Their Work
From the winter 2021–2022 Sea Star print newsletter
In honor of the program’s golden anniversary, we asked four current and former staff to reflect on what they have accomplished here
By Grace Freeman, WSG Science Communications Fellow
Based in Seattle and housed within the University of Washin...
Local and Coastal: Whole Dungeness Crab
May 1, 2020
By Abby Rogerson, WSG Student Assistant
While cleaning crabs may be intimidating to first-timers, don’t let that get in the way of enjoying Dungeness crab at home. Becky Selengut, local chef, educator, and writer, makes cleaning crab simple with her tutorial, available here. If you...
Mobile App Helps Boaters Follow Puget Sound No Discharge Zone Rule
April 15, 2021
“Pumpout Nav” is a free, simple tool that helps boaters locate pumpout services and comply with the law.
Boating season is right around the corner, and knowing where to pumpout is important for following the Puget Sound No Discharge Zone (NDZ) Rule. In August 2020, Washin...
Washington Sea Grant Receives Federal Funding to Track Aquaculture Production
January 27, 2021
National Sea Grant awarded $4.7 million total to strengthen the economics of the U.S. aquaculture industry
Workers for the Jolly Roger Oyster Company harvest oysters buried in the muddy bottom of Willapa Bay in Washington.
Washington Sea Grant (WSG) has been awarded $376,990 in f...
Carbon comes home
Carbon Comes Home
How a serendipitous connection led ocean acidification researchers to an island farm
Back in the early 2000s, Washington State was ground zero for ocean acidification,” Meg Chadsey, ocean acidification specialist at Washington Sea Grant (WSG), says. “Fossil fuel emissi...
Environmental DNA (Part 3): Reconciling eDNA with Traditional Detection Methods
March 30, 2022
This is the third in a series of posts on a Crab Team project to develop environmental DNA (eDNA) for use in early detection and management of European green crab. The first posts provided an introduction to eDNA and the benefits and challenges it offers to invasion managers.
In devel...
Boating Outreach
Boating
Pumpout Washington: Clean Marina Program
Aaron Barnett, Boating Program Specialist, and Bridget Trosin, Coastal Policy Specialist
WATCH our latest instructional videos!
In partnership with the Washington State Parks Clean Vessel Act p...
2015 Elwha Research Consortium
The Elwha Research Consortium (ERC) has announced its the 3rd Elwha River Science Symposium. This meeting will be held on November 18 – 20, 2015 on the Campus of NatureBridge Olympic National Park, near Lake Crescent. This will be the first symposium following full dam removal of both ...
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Legislative Actions
Washington Territory repealed “An Act for the Preservation of Clams, Oysters and Other Shellfish.”
Chehalis Tribe reservation established by U.S. presidential executive order.
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Event Cancellations
Updated April 30, 2020
It is with an abundance of caution that the director of Washington Sea Grant has decided to cancel certain upcoming events in order not to risk anyone’s health and wellness given the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus in our state. Please continue to check back here as infor...